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Paul Beach

AKA: Paul W. Beach Jr.
Released
Gender:Male
Era:1960s
State:Pennsylvania
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Biography

Paul Beach was listed among imprisoned draft and conscientious resisters in contemporary CCCO reports from 1969 and 1970.

In his April 19, 2017 Dartmouth oral history, Paul W. Beach Jr. recalls his first arrest at the October 21, 1967 Pentagon demonstration and spending that night in a large holding room in the Washington area. This precedes his separate 1969 Parkhurst Hall detention and draft-resistance imprisonment. The account does not establish an exact release time, named detention facility, charge or completed day total. First-person transcript, pp.33–35; Dartmouth interview catalog.

Cases

Charges: Refusal of military induction during the Vietnam War
Sentenced: August 1969
Incarcerated: 1969
Released: April 1971
Sentence: Listed in custody at Allenwood, Pennsylvania in September-October 1969 and at Allenwood, Pennsylvania in the second quarter of 1970. Exact admission/release days and total days served remain unverified. In his Dartmouth oral history, Beach reports a three-and-a-half-year sentence in August1969, custody at Philadelphia Detention Center and Lewisburg before Allenwood, and release in April1971. His20-month Allenwood recollection is a portion of custody, not an asserted total.
Convicted: Yes
Plead: No Contest
Charges: Contempt of court
Arrested: May 7, 1969
Incarcerated: May 1969
Sentence: Thirty-day jail sentence for defying the injunction against the May1969 occupation. Beach personally describes confinement at Grafton County Jail and then Merrimack County Jail. Exact release and actual total days remain unverified.
Arrested: Oct 21, 1967